Trail Six

Are you an undergrad hoping to get published? Submit to Trail Six, the University of British Columbia’s Undergraduate Journal of Geography.

Trail Six is accepting submissions of original work until December 23, 2016. Manuscripts must adhere to the criteria outlined below and may be sent to trailsix@ubcgsa.com.

Criteria:

One submission per person (excluding group submissions)

Please do not re-submit submissions from prior years.

Maximum 4000 words; please note that thiswill be reduced to a maximum of 3000 in the editing process.

Work must not have been published elsewhere.

Group work is permitted (one participant will need to work with editors as the main author and all group members must agree to have their work published.

You must be able to commit approximately 30 hours to the review process between January and March.

All students with papers meeting these criteria are strongly encouraged to submit to Trail Six, a nationally recognized undergraduate journal. Selected papers will be peer reviewed by students and professors prior to publication.

Being published as an undergraduate is highly regarded on a resume or graduate school application, and since papers are made anonymous prior to review, you have nothing to lose by submitting an essay.

How to submit:
Please include the following in your submission:

Manuscript attached as a Microsoft Word document (.doc) or GIS/cartographic work attached in the appropriate file type (.pdf is suggested).

A cover page for your manuscript, which includes the title, your name (do not include your name in subsequent pages), course and course instructor the paper was written for, and grade received. Please comment if edits have been made after the paper was graded (edits are encouraged but not necessary).